The highs and lows of The Hobbit are made instantaneously clear here in this nifty interactive chart, which maps out both the evolving character relationships and the emotional ups-and-downs they experience as the story unfolds.

It's 2013. We should all know that there are clear differences between calling something a nerd and calling someone a geek. This is a fact! Slackpropagation created this nifty graph that shows the dividing line on what defines a geek and what defines a nerd. The easiest way to tell the difference? Geeks are fans of a…

Recently we were rather skeptical about a report claiming that a third of iPad users have never downloaded an app. Now there's confirmation that we weren't just paranoid: Nielsen, the media-survey firm behind the numbers, has posted a major correction.

Occasionally Google produces charts showing "the relative number of active devices running a given version of the Android platform." The latest of these charts is special though: It apparently marks the first time Android 2.1 was the most used version.

Yikes. While the amounts are only tiny fractions of their revenues, major tech companies are spending quite a bit of money on lobbying. Hell, apparently "Google's lobbying is half what it spends on advertising." [BI]

When have TV aliens been more popular than magic? Do shows featuring time travel fare better than those about space exploration? We chart the popularity of television's most common themes, and see how scifi television has changed since 1970.

Thanks to all our Chicago readers who sent in their speed test data from their iPhone 3G and 3GS. Here's our conclusion: the 7.2Mbps AT&T's testing in Chicago doesn't really make any difference right now in speeds.

Why didn't the Doctor do anything to fix the oppressive alien society he met in the Doctor Who Christmas special? Because most of the time, the Doctor only tries to preserve the status quo. But occasionally he visits a dystopia where he launches a revolution and smashes the system. Click through for our chart showing…

According to various unreliable surveys, 81% of the population "feels like they have a book in them." But only a very few ever write it. And of those few, even fewer make a living by writing science fiction. This chart tells you why. It shows how many books scifi great Isaac Asimov (author of I, Robot) published…

This graph charts the market caps of Apple and Dell over the last 10 years. We'll just call these numbers "The iPod Effect." And according to stock values, the iPod didn't exist until 2005. Show of hands—who out there is still holding a boatload of Apple stock from 2004? And can we borrow 5 bucks for lunch? [cnnmoney…

A cousin of the Tanita BC-502 with Bluetooth and a fat sensor, this Tanita BC-500-SV has a USB port so you can keep track of your weight on a memory stick. Every time you weigh yourself, gazing past your midnight KFC and one-mojito-too-many gut, the scale will record your body weight and fat percentage onto the USB…

We took every review, ever, of Logitech's golden boy the MX Revolution and simmered them over low heat for 20 minutes. The rich gelatin was then poured into a centrifuge where its contents were analyzed and translated into stunning 3D graphics by the Gizmodo Super Computer. Results show the Logitech MX Revolution is a…

The TomTom One is a car GPS small enough to fit in a largish pocket. We gathered the review scores from across the net, crunched them into a gazillion bacon-bits using the Gizmodo supercomputer and put them into a chart: as the awesome CGI indicates, the TomTom One is a stellar GPS navigator for its price. We…